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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by rayiner on Monday December 21, 2015 @08:31PM (#10775039)
By and large it's not practical to live and work in the same suburb, especially if you're a two-income couple. Which is why in the D.C. area you have crazy traffic with people commuting between random suburbs. It's way more efficient to put all the jobs in a central location and move people in and out with commuter rail. It could easily take you an hour to drive from one D.C. suburb to another. In that same time, I can commute from Connecticut into NYC.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by nickbauman on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:11PM (#10775275)
I have a friend who commuted via high-speed rail from Berlin to Braunschweig, logging on via the rail WiFi to start work. He'd arrive in a little over 2 hours, work for ~4 hours, and head back home finishing his work day on the train. It's a long day on the train but he loved it and continues living in Berlin today.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by ownagefool on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:50AM (#10777413)
I think many of us wouldn't actually be bothered with a huge commute if it could be considered as part of our working hours. The problem with that is how common it is to not to be considered working unless you're at your desk, which turns that into a 12 hour day rather than the 8 hour day you have.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by nickbauman on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:05PM (#10779239)
It is rather odd that, as a knowledge worker, I have to climb into a metal box and operate it at dangerously high speeds (participating in an activity that's the #1 highest accidental killer in the US) so that I may arrive at a desk in some distant location so that I may be seen typing at my keyboard so I may get paid for it.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by loudmax on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:30PM (#10775382)
Can confirm. I commute between Herndon VA and Greenbelt MD every day. If I get on the beltway before 6am it takes about an hour. I would love to ride the Metro rather than drive, but that takes nearly two hours.
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